more seriously, apocalyptic end time theology is a dangerous game in a nuclear age... I guess if you sincerely believe that the end is near like some say of Jesus, Paul, etc., then the language is reasonable enuf, but from this distance and especially with what some notable scholars have been telling us about layered traditions in the N.T., and ancient apocalyptic movements, methinks a rethink is in order (nakedpastor.com)
If only through this perspective, we can know that the deepest movement of orthodox Christian thinking is a backward movement of return, a return to an absolutely primordial Godhead, a movement which is inevitably the reversal of an absolutely forward apocalyptic movement, so that the very victory of ancient Christian orthodoxy was inevitably the reversal of an original Christian apocalypticism. (religion-online.org)
These latter, in a far more secular age, lacked the supernatural elements of the earlier more apocalyptic movements (which reflected the mediaeval beliefs of the time), but they did have strong religious overtones. (religion-online.org)